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Title:
Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.
Author:
Swingen, Abigail Leslie, author.
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Call Number:
F2131 .S94 2015
Geographic Term:
West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.

West Indies, British -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.

West Indies, British -- Commerce.

West Indies, British -- Historiography.

West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.

West Indies, British -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
ISBN:
9780300187540
Physical Description:
xiii, 271 pages : map ; 25 cm
Subject Term:
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.

Imperialism -- History.

Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.
Contents:
Unfree labor and the origins of empire -- Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660 -- Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671 -- Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678 -- Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688 -- The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire -- The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718.
Personal Author:
Swingen, Abigail Leslie, author.
Subject:
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.

Imperialism -- History.

Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.

West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.

West Indies, British -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.

West Indies, British -- Commerce.

West Indies, British -- Historiography.

West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.

West Indies, British -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
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